Director Platform Engineering Jobs in Raleigh, NC

Position Description:

Provides technical guidance, resolves complex development and design issues, and ensures alignment of system solutions with business partner requirements. Architects and builds complex end-to-end systems and ensures integration with third-party platforms, using industry standard protocols. Develops and implements technology strategies in Cloud computing environments -- Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Azure. Leverages DevOps, SQL/NoSQL databases, and full stack frameworks -- AngularJS, NodeJS, Java, and Python. Drives digital transformation initiatives, mentors engineering staff, and advances best practices in Agile/iterative delivery methodologies. Draws on in-depth knowledge of the business or function to provide business unit-wide solutions by developing complex, multi-faceted software applications. Researches and recommends new technologies in support of the strategic direction of the business unit and participates in the research and recommendation of appropriate models, methods, tools, and technologies to achieve business-unit-wide solutions.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Translates and incorporates business vision and strategy to architectural strategy recommendations at the functional level.
• Participates in high-level, cross-functional architecture design teams.
• Identifies and consults with internal and external technical resources to produce cross-company strategic designs.
• Consults on development and delivery of major technology initiatives for the business unit.
• Consults on deployment of major project deliverables.
• Consults on the documentation of major technology applications.
• Oversees the technical implementation of cross-divisional or company architectural components.
• Initiates and drives project or strategy discussions with users or external groups to resolve issues.
• Sets vision, goals, and direction of team/organization.
• Plans and leads organization-wide initiatives.
• Provides leadership, technical supervision, and expertise to multiple teams in broad technical areas on complex organization-wide projects.
• Advises senior management on technical strategy.
• Researches and recommends new technologies.
• Works across groups to identify opportunities for organization-wide technology initiatives.
• Regularly provides guidance, training, and coaching to other team members for performance and career development.
• Identifies and plans for future resource needs.
• Determines technical approaches at a strategic level for the business unit.

Education and Experience:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and six (6) years of experience as a Director, Software Engineering (or closely related occupation) designing, developing, and maintaining customer facing Web applications and services in a financial or retail services environment using Java, Spring framework, Angular, and JavaScript.

Or, alternatively, Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and four (4) years of experience as a Director, Software Engineering (or closely related occupation) designing, developing, and maintaining customer facing Web applications and services in a financial or retail services environment using Java, Spring framework, Angular, and JavaScript.

Skills and Knowledge:

Candidate must also possess:

• Demonstrated Expertise ("DE") designing, developing, and implementing software solutions to service application clients according to RESTful Web services architecture using Spring framework; and designing, coding, and reviewing high quality software solutions in Java technologies for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based applications.
• DE designing and developing object model and Spring Batch implementation for back-end services in a scalable multi-tiered environment; and developing distributed, low-latency, high throughput applications, using Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline, Jenkins, Sonar, Test Driven Development (TDD), and Agile methodologies.
• DE deploying and monitoring enterprise Web based services to provide the CI/CD of scalable multi-tiered Web applications, using Jenkins, NPM, and Maven (package management); per-forming version control (using Git), issue tracking (using Jira and Service Now), and log tracking (using Splunk); and providing CD according to Agile methodologies.
• DE acting as a technical lead for onshore or offshore development, Cloud migration projects, Proof of Concepts (PoCs), and core or maintenance projects according to Waterfall and Agile methodologies.

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